March 15, 2022 • POETRY WORKSHOP • Anita Skeen – Home, House, Neighborhood: The Places We Inhabit
7:00 – 8:30 PM EST
In this workshop we will reflect on, talk about, and ultimately write about the places we call home, whether as small as the houses or apartments we live in or as broad as our neighborhoods or communities. In this time of pandemic, isolating, and sheltering in place, has your notion of “home” changed? Is it a refuge or a prison? Have you done things to change the place you call home? Has your sense of home changed since childhood? What do you need, or want, for a comfortable home? Through the magic of Zoom, we will read together some powerful examples of writers contemplating the meaning of “home,” followed by time to write a draft, followed by time to share, if you so choose.
About the workshop facilitator:
Anita Skeen is currently Professor Emerita in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University where she was the Founding Director of The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU and is the Series Editor for Wheelbarrow Books. She taught students in kindergarten through high school while working with the Kansas Arts Commission’s Artist in the Schools Program; in traditional venues such as college classrooms; as a Visiting Writer and Writer in Residence; and in senior citizens’ centers, libraries, and at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. She has been the Coordinator of the Creative Arts Program at Ghost Ranch for 42 years, and the Fall Writing Festival for 24 years.
Skeen is the author of six volumes of poetry: Each Hand A Map (1986); Portraits (1990); Outside the Fold, Outside the Frame (1999); The Resurrection of the Animals (2002); Never the Whole Story (2011); When We Say Shelter (2007), with Oklahoma poet Jane Taylor; and The Unauthorized Audubon (2014), a collection of poems about imaginary birds accompanied by the linocuts of anthropologist/visual artist Laura B. DeLind. With Taylor, she co-edited the literary anthology Once Upon A Place: Writings from Ghost Ranch (2008). Her poetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Collaboration is an important aspect of her work and she is currently involved in writing projects with poets Jane Taylor and Cindy Hunter Morgan, and visual artist Laura DeLind. In 2015, she received the William J. Beale Outstanding Faculty Award at Michigan State University.
7:00 – 8:30 PM EST
In this workshop we will reflect on, talk about, and ultimately write about the places we call home, whether as small as the houses or apartments we live in or as broad as our neighborhoods or communities. In this time of pandemic, isolating, and sheltering in place, has your notion of “home” changed? Is it a refuge or a prison? Have you done things to change the place you call home? Has your sense of home changed since childhood? What do you need, or want, for a comfortable home? Through the magic of Zoom, we will read together some powerful examples of writers contemplating the meaning of “home,” followed by time to write a draft, followed by time to share, if you so choose.
About the workshop facilitator:
Anita Skeen is currently Professor Emerita in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University where she was the Founding Director of The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU and is the Series Editor for Wheelbarrow Books. She taught students in kindergarten through high school while working with the Kansas Arts Commission’s Artist in the Schools Program; in traditional venues such as college classrooms; as a Visiting Writer and Writer in Residence; and in senior citizens’ centers, libraries, and at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. She has been the Coordinator of the Creative Arts Program at Ghost Ranch for 42 years, and the Fall Writing Festival for 24 years.
Skeen is the author of six volumes of poetry: Each Hand A Map (1986); Portraits (1990); Outside the Fold, Outside the Frame (1999); The Resurrection of the Animals (2002); Never the Whole Story (2011); When We Say Shelter (2007), with Oklahoma poet Jane Taylor; and The Unauthorized Audubon (2014), a collection of poems about imaginary birds accompanied by the linocuts of anthropologist/visual artist Laura B. DeLind. With Taylor, she co-edited the literary anthology Once Upon A Place: Writings from Ghost Ranch (2008). Her poetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Collaboration is an important aspect of her work and she is currently involved in writing projects with poets Jane Taylor and Cindy Hunter Morgan, and visual artist Laura DeLind. In 2015, she received the William J. Beale Outstanding Faculty Award at Michigan State University.
7:00 – 8:30 PM EST
In this workshop we will reflect on, talk about, and ultimately write about the places we call home, whether as small as the houses or apartments we live in or as broad as our neighborhoods or communities. In this time of pandemic, isolating, and sheltering in place, has your notion of “home” changed? Is it a refuge or a prison? Have you done things to change the place you call home? Has your sense of home changed since childhood? What do you need, or want, for a comfortable home? Through the magic of Zoom, we will read together some powerful examples of writers contemplating the meaning of “home,” followed by time to write a draft, followed by time to share, if you so choose.
About the workshop facilitator:
Anita Skeen is currently Professor Emerita in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University where she was the Founding Director of The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU and is the Series Editor for Wheelbarrow Books. She taught students in kindergarten through high school while working with the Kansas Arts Commission’s Artist in the Schools Program; in traditional venues such as college classrooms; as a Visiting Writer and Writer in Residence; and in senior citizens’ centers, libraries, and at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico. She has been the Coordinator of the Creative Arts Program at Ghost Ranch for 42 years, and the Fall Writing Festival for 24 years.
Skeen is the author of six volumes of poetry: Each Hand A Map (1986); Portraits (1990); Outside the Fold, Outside the Frame (1999); The Resurrection of the Animals (2002); Never the Whole Story (2011); When We Say Shelter (2007), with Oklahoma poet Jane Taylor; and The Unauthorized Audubon (2014), a collection of poems about imaginary birds accompanied by the linocuts of anthropologist/visual artist Laura B. DeLind. With Taylor, she co-edited the literary anthology Once Upon A Place: Writings from Ghost Ranch (2008). Her poetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Collaboration is an important aspect of her work and she is currently involved in writing projects with poets Jane Taylor and Cindy Hunter Morgan, and visual artist Laura DeLind. In 2015, she received the William J. Beale Outstanding Faculty Award at Michigan State University.
